The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,760 - Sep 7 2014

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15 joining game that brings rival universities together OXBRIDGE
Attend one opening in theatre and quickly leave BEATIT
Author that is initially holding up American volume for book-lovers LITERATI
Black sheep's description -- dull and stupid BOVINE
Border for skirt or winter coat further down FURBELOW
Covering or partly covering OVER
Deficiency in rebuilt base where part of Russian navy is BLACKSEA
Denial, for example, that's accepted by people NEGATION
Details of course of naval vessel mate's heading North SYLLABUS
Drop in financial support -- it's not on the level GRADIENT
Duke and I taken in by lustful churchman CARDINAL
European hero of American novel FINN
Fictional characters disturbed about study meant to be secret CONFIDENTIAL
Gemstone seen in ring partner has on OPAL
Gradually developing as rebel after monarch's ousted as leader EVOLUTIONARY
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How the scales of justice should operate better, we hear, for traveller WAYFARER
I had turned up poet's work showing more variety DIVERSIFYING
Ignoring origins of law, try being crooked AWRY
Indian garments from South, having come to be cut SARIS
Inviolability of court, within reason SANCTITY
Island after island found in river ISIS
Movement that's slowly taken inside popular government LARGO
Patience, for example, to repeat after revision OPERETTA
Person involved in case originally tailing leader of thieves LITIGANT
Player as viewed by opponent in bridge school ETON
Quit or accept new contract? RESIGN
Ready to get off the ground, completely developed FULLYFLEDGED
Small part of litter, in turn, recycled RUNT
Transformed prince, perhaps, changed for good FROG
Tyrant giving bad mark, with learner kept in STALIN